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Cambridge Pro Bono Project

 

Submission to Australian Attorney-General regarding Australia’s proposed reform of anti-discrimination legislation

In March 2011 the Cambridge Pro Bono Committee submitted a report to the Australian Attorney General regarding Australia’s proposed reform of anti-discrimination legislation.

The Cambridge Pro Bono Project took the view that the strengths and weaknesses of the United Kingdom experience in the consideration and passage of the Equality Act 2010 might offer the Australian government some valuable lessons. The main purpose of the report was thus to provide a thoroughly researched brief on the UK experience, and identify the lessons that Australia might draw from that experience.

A team of twelve postgraduate students worked on the project, comprising five Ph.D. students and seven LL.M. students. The research team was advised by Professor David Feldman.

 

UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

In March 2011 the Cambridge Pro Bono Committee provided a brief to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Professor Christof Heyns.

The report addressed the legal frameworks governing public demonstrations in each of Egypt, Germany, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mexico, Nepal, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

A team of twelve postgraduate students worked on the project, comprising four Ph.D. students and eight LL.M. students. The research team was advised by Dr Guglielmo Verdirame.